Hanbali school

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Sunni Islamic legal school madhhab

The Hanbali school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its strict textualism and reliance on the Quran and Hadith over juristic reasoning.

Aliases (3)

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sunni Islamic legal school → madhhab →
areaOfLaw	criminal law → family law → judicial procedure → ritual worship (ibadat) → transactions (muamalat) →
attitudeToIstihsan	rejects juristic preference →
attitudeToMaslaha	cautious use of public interest reasoning →
attitudeToQiyas	restrictive use of analogical reasoning →
attitudeToRa’y	suspicious of personal opinion in law →
emergedInCentury	9th century →
emergedInCity	Baghdad →
emergedInRegion	Iraq →
founder	Ahmad ibn Hanbal →
influencedMovement	Salafi movement → Wahhabism →
influentialScholar	Ibn Batta al-Ukbari → Ibn Qudamah → Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali → Ibn Taymiyyah → Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah → al-Bahuti → al-Mardawi →
languageOfScholarship	Arabic →
legalMethodology	textualism → traditionalism →
majorFiqhText	Kashshaf al-Qinaʿ by al-Bahuti → Zad al-Mustaqniʿ by al-Hajjawi → al-Insaf by al-Mardawi → al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah → al-Muqniʿ by Ibn Qudamah →
namedAfter	Ahmad ibn Hanbal →
oneOf	four major Sunni legal schools →
otherSunniSchools	Hanafi school → Maliki school → Shafiʿi school →
predominantInCountry	Saudi Arabia →
presentInCountry	Qatar → United Arab Emirates → parts of Iraq → parts of Palestine → parts of Syria →
primarySource	Hadith → Quran →
relativeSizeAmongSunniSchools	smallest of the four major Sunni madhhabs →
religiousTradition	Sunni Islam →
usesSource	consensus of the Companions →
viewOnAttributesOfGod	affirms divine attributes without figurative interpretation →
viewOnHadith	strong preference for authentic hadith over rational argument →
viewOnInnovation	strong opposition to religious innovation →
viewOnScripture	emphasis on literal meaning of texts →
viewOnTheology	associated with Athari creed →
viewOnWeakHadith	sometimes accepts weak hadith over qiyas →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Qiyas ("Hanbali school of law") →	acceptedBy
Athari creed ("Hanbali school of law") →	associatedWith
Maliki school →	coexistsWith
Istihsan ("Hanbali school (in limited forms)") →	consideredBy
Ja'fari school →	contrastedWith
Zahiri school of law ("Hanbali school of law") →	contrastsWith
Shafi'i school →	differsFrom
Islamic world ("Hanbali") →	hasLegalSchool
Sharia →	hasSchoolOfInterpretation
Suhrawardiyya ("Hanbali") →	legalSchool
Sunni Islam ("Hanbali") →	majorSchoolOfLaw
Hanafi school →	otherSunniSchools